BRONWEN MELLOR (1977 – 2011)

BIOGRAPHY

Bronwen Mellor’s painting career spanned a period of 33 years (1977 – 2011).

She became interested in nature as a teenager, after camping in of Bechuanaland Protectorate (now Botswana) in the late 1950s. On a month-long trip to the Okavango Delta in 1973, she was awaked to birds and the amazing diversity of the avifauna of the sub-continent.

Within six years she had risen to become one of the top bird artists in South Africa, exhibiting regularly in galleries in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Her paintings hang in homes around the world, including those of the secretary of the Audubon Society in the United States and the chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee in Sweden.

Mellor exhibited regularly at the Everard Read Gallery in Rosebank, along with renowned wildlife artists like David Shepherd and Raymond Ching.

SOURCE
‘Bronwen Mellor,’ Wakkerstroom Tourism, https://www.a-cbs.co.za/brownyn-mellor/.